Urla Şarapçılık Shop
Scenic Historic Estate
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Can Ortabaş's pioneering estate where Decanter Platinum bottles and an arboretum share one ridgeline above Kuşçular
Vineyard & Slow
Tokoğlu
Inland wine-country corridor on the Urla route
Tokoğlu is the wine-country corridor inland from Alaçatı, vineyards on the hill, the longer-arc Urla wine route a half-hour west, and the small clutch of producers and tasting rooms that make this the closest the Aegean gets to a credible wine valley. USCA, Urla Şarapçılık and a handful of boutique houses anchor the route. Drive in from Alaçatı, taste, drive back at dusk.
Highlights
Boutique winery cluster Urla wine route gateway Hill vineyard views Tasting-room density
11 places
4 Categories
Shop
5 places
Mozaik Şarapçılık Shop
Estate Scenic Rustic
Mahrem-label reds from Italian varietals, grown organically on the grounds of Türkiye's largest racehorse stud
Alaçatı Cumartesi Pazarı Shop
Cultural Rustic Artisan
The 1994 Saturday market on Tokoğlu's edge, the peninsula's slow-food anchor and the village's true social square
Statera Şarapçılık Shop
Scenic Estate Rustic
Lena and Alihan Haydaroğlu's Özbek estate, Rhône blends from a wind gap two kilometres from the sea
Köstem Organik Çiftliği Shop
Scenic Estate Rustic
Levent and Güler Köstem's working olive farm, fourteen thousand trees, JOOP gold-medal Memecik, restaurant and three guest rooms
Restaurant
3 places
MMG Şarapçılık Restaurant
Scenic Estate Rustic
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Meltem Güner Atalay's hillside estate, night-harvest grapes, gravity-fed cellar, 20,000 bottles by hand
Çakır Winery Restaurant
Scenic Estate Romantic
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A late-arriving estate with the most accomplished vineyard kitchen on the Urla route, wood oven, Aegean-Italian menu
HUS Şarapçılık Restaurant
Scenic Estate Modern
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The peninsula's youngest serious estate, Chilean winemaking lineage, pre-phylloxera Carignan, panoramic terrace kitchen
Gallery
2 places
Köstem Zeytinyağı Müzesi Gallery
Editor's Pick
Gallery Cultural Garden Educational
The world's largest olive oil museum, a Klazomenai mill replica, a working modern press, a restaurant and a shop, seventeen kilometres from Alaçatı
Alaçatı Sakızlığı Gallery
Cultural Garden Educational
The mastic park north of the village, the peninsula's only living gallery of Pistacia lentiscus and the Sakız Ağacım revival project's home
Bar
1 place
Buradan Winery Bar
Scenic Artisanal Authentic
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Organic Grenache rosé and Tempranillo grown six kilometres of stone-terraced slope above the village, tasted facing Chios
